The Edge Quotes

Courage, ” he said, “is being absolutely terrified of something and doing it anyway.

I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.

Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini

Are your consistent beliefs serving you or are they holding you back?

He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful.

The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.

Thursday afternoon, the dark clouds closed in, and by Friday morning a heavy rain was falling. The mountain peaks were hazy sentinels, disappearing into misty fog that clung to the valley.

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give it.

A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is swallowed by enormity.

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.

Only the framing material, " Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God.

There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

I have squandered away my father's political legacy...My personal life is in a mess...Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya

It’s a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

Ideology is dead..Politics is about barter..you give some, take back a lot more. Its business at the end of the day. - Ravi Nehra

There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim.

I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetuating our faith through your generation and beyond.

God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life.

Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences.

If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.

He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.

23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.